{"id":1039041,"date":"2026-09-28T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039041"},"modified":"2026-09-28T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:55:00","slug":"mobile-phone-retailers-to-protest-against-upi-mdr-charges-on-oct-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/28\/mobile-phone-retailers-to-protest-against-upi-mdr-charges-on-oct-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phone retailers to protest against UPI MDR charges on Oct 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Mobile phone retailers across India plan to observe October 2 as &#8220;No UPI Day&#8221; in protest against 0.4 per cent merchant discount rate charges on UPI transactions, a senior official of industry body AIMRA said. <\/p>\n<p>The government has introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on UPI transfers exceeding Rs 2,000 to merchants from October 15, while exempting person-to-person transactions as well as small payments from any charges. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA) has called for a &#8216;NO UPI DAY&#8217; on October 2, 2026, to highlight the concerns of mobile retailers regarding the 0.4 per cent Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) applicable to eligible merchant UPI transactions,&#8221; AIMRA Vice President and President for Delhi NCR region, Tarvinder Singh, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Mobile phone retailers across India plan to observe October 2 as &#8220;No UPI Day&#8221; in protest against 0.4 per cent merchant discount rate charges on UPI transactions, a senior official of industry body AIMRA said. The government has introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on UPI transfers exceeding Rs 2,000 to merchants from October 15, while exempting person-to-person transactions as well as small payments from any charges. &#8220;The All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA) has called for a &#8216;NO UPI DAY&#8217; on October 2, 2026, to highlight the concerns of mobile retailers regarding the 0.4 per cent Merchant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039042,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039041\/revisions\/1039042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}